For Rookie Cowboys, Snakes and Aches Driving Cattle on the Australian Range

Six-Month Cattle Drive Is Moving 18,000 Animals Across 1,200 Miles

By

Rob Taylor

Jan. 20, 2014 10:31 p.m. ET

GUNBAR, Australia—To Bill Little, snakes crawling in sleeping bags, saddle sores and 12-hour days in scalding temperatures are all in a day's work driving cattle vast distances across the Australian outback.

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